August 10, 1998 GUANICA, Puerto Rico — Tens of thousands of independence supporters marched and rallied here July 25 commemorating the centennial of the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico. Held at the very site where U.S. troops landed in 1898,…
Below is an extract from a speech by James P. Cannon, “The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” given shortly after the U.S. rulers’ cold-blooded massacre in the two Japanese cities, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945. To mark the anniversary of…
August 10, 1998 PORTADOWN, Northern Ireland — The nationalist population of the Garvaghy Road area of Portadown witnessed the humiliating defeat of forces mobilized by the sectarian Orange Order in the week beginning July 12. By July 10 some 25,000…
On July 26 we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the 1953 attack led by Fidel Castro on the Moncada army garrison in Santiago de Cuba, which marked the opening of the Cuban Revolution. The attack took place just a little…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Soldier of the Cuban Revolution: From the Cane Fields of Oriente to General of the Revolutionary Armed Forces by Luis Alfonso Zayas. This year is the 70th anniversary of the…
July 28, 1998 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Chants of “Huelga! Huelga!” (Strike! Strike!) thundered at dawn as close to 1,000 unionists blocked the highway entrance to the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport here July 7. It was the first…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is Labor’s Giant Step — The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936-55 by Art Preis. Out of his experiences in the labor battles of the 1930s, Preis became a staff…
Something is different today. More workers are using their unions to fight the bosses’ relentless push to drive wages down, weaken health care and pensions, intensify already brutal work conditions and make workers’ schedules longer. This profit-driven offensive is eating…
July 28, 1998 FLINT, Michigan — As the strikes by 9,200 workers at two General Motors plants here enter their second month, the world’s largest auto maker is taking new steps to pressure the workers and their union, the United…
The article “Crises of child care, education, medical care hit workers hard” in Militant issue no. 25 incorrectly said medical debts make up about half of all outstanding debt in the country, reporting erroneous data from the New York Times.…
